Nectaris: Military Madness (PlayStation)

After playing the original game again, I'm starting to think of this game as the same game with different maps and 3D battle scenes. Even the unit sprites seem to be reused from the original.

I like this a lot, but it has a few frustrating issues:

1. the backgrounds look like crap, a blurry mess of poorly defined landscapes. It doesn't matter that much, but I wish they had done something sharper for this, the original looks way better.
2. There is a noticable loading pause before viewing unit stats and 3D model. I guess I'm OK with that for viewing the model, but it would be a small thing to be able to view unit stats on the map without the 3D model.

I slight fix for 2. is setting the MiSTer load speed options to max, seems to work without issues.